WOMENS WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 208, 3 August 1937, Page 13

WOMENS WORLD

(By “Nanette.”)

Mrs J. H. Milne, of “Stonewall,” Waimate, who has been the guest of Mrs J. King, Havill Street, Palmerston North, hiis returned to her home. Miss M. Kyle, of Aorangi, is staying with Miss M. Franklin, of Ti Tree Point, Dannevirke. Mrs C. S. Williams, of Broadway, who has been visiting Paraparaumu, has returned home. Miss M. Verry, of Waipukurau, is spending a holiday in Palmerston North and Hawera. Miss Ruth Fawcett, the new organiser for the British and Foreign Bible Society in the Manawatu and Wairarapa districts, is visiting Palmerston North this week and will be working in the Manawatu for about a month. She was formerly organiser in the central North Island area. Her headquarters are now in Wellington. Mrs W. Ritchie, who is over eighty years of age and one of the oldest members of the British and Foreign Bible Society, was greeted by Miss Ruth Fawcett, the new organiser, at the welcome social yesterday. A motion of sympathy with the relatives of the late Miss J. N. McGhie, matron of the Palmerston North Hospital, was passed at a recent meeting of the executive of the Palmerston North branch of the R.S.A. The president, Mr B. J. Jacobs, made feeling reference to Miss McGhie’s war service and to the benefit derived by the community from her ministrations. An appeal for support for the Palmerston North Hospital Women’s Auxiliary Spring Fair was made by Mrs T. 11. Moore at a gathering yesterday. Mrs Moore said the auxiliary had had many setbacks in working towards this objective, first by the infantile paralysis epidemic and then by the death of the matron, Miss J. N. McGhie, to whose heart the proposal had been very dear, in order that a chapel might be established for the nurses.

Mr and Mrs H. Sliarman, of Ferguson Street, left by the Auckland express last night for an extended tour of the north.

Miss Vera Oliver, the daughter of Mrs H. Oliver, of Knowles Street, is seriously ill in the Wellington Hospital, her friends will regret to learn. Miss Sybil Amon has resumed her training as a pupil nurse in the Wanganui Hospital after spending her annual vacation as the guest of Mr and Mrs Herbert Amon, of Feilding Road, Ashhurst. Mrs J. Anderson, of Kahuranaki, the mother of the triplets born in Hastings on Coronation Hay, has been granted the King’s Bounty of £3. The babies are making excellent progress, and nre at present receiving special attention and supervisio n at a home in Wellington.